[1] Sastry was the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical, Biomedical and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan from 1995 to 2012.
While at the University of Michigan, she founded and directed GM/UM Advanced Battery Coalition for Drivetrains and Energy Systems Engineering graduate program.
Fabio Albano, Marc Langlois, and Steve Buckingham claimed that the company's early patents and methods were useless and that Sakti3 was using an unscalable stacked cell configuration.
[19] The only independently verified data on Sakti3's prototypes by the United States Department of Energy show a capacity of 2.4 mAh, only capable of powering very small devices.
[20] Steve Buckingham, a former employee, has publicly expressed his disappointment with the small area (one square cm) of the best cell produced.